(a.) Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
(a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
(n.) A Sapphic verse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB) 1997-2003 Buffy's helper who discovered her witch powers and Sapphic nature in the course of the series.
(2) Lesbians on TV CJ Lamb (Amanda Donohoe), LA Law (NBC) 1991 First Sapphic kiss on primetime TV, between CJ and Abby (Michele Greene).
(3) In one of the emblematic strands of the novel, the orderly Joseph Grand is looking throughout for the right words to perfect his vision of a woman rider out in the Bois de Boulogne: this recurrent sentence works like the little phrase of Vinteuil, hinting at a kind of Proustian Sapphic splendour in the distant capital of moral adventure and sexual consumption; the "svelte Amazon" embodies the preposterous hopes and dreams of an everyman in exile.
(4) So it was hardly surprising when Shakira and Rihanna's video for new single Can't Remember to Forget You was made complete with some saucy images of Sapphic seduction.
(5) Though her subsequent releases are hardly as Sapphic as her debut single Do It Like A Dude, she's never hidden her bisexuality.
Trochee
Definition:
(n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have studied a special case where the subject hears 4 repetitions of a simple rhythmic pattern (iamb 300-600 ms, or trochee 600-300 ms), the interval between two patterns being 1200 ms.
(2) Various testing and training materials (Chinese version of the monosyllable-trochee-spondee [MTS] test) as well as modified candidate evaluation procedures and criteria were applied.
(3) The children were tested preimplant and at 6-month intervals up to 2 years using the Monosyllable-Trochee-Spondee test (MTS), the Word Intelligibility by Picture Identification test (WIPI), and Phonetically Balanced Kindergarten (PB-K) or Northwestern University List 6 (NU-6) word lists.
(4) Variables included: age; etiology and nature of deafness; type of implant worn; pre- and postimplant warble tone and speech detection thresholds; postimplant performance on the Monosyllable-Trochee-Spondee (MTS) and Environmental Sounds tests; postimplant electrical thresholds, uncomfortable loudness levels, and dynamic range; I.Q.